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diff --git a/doc/release-notes.md b/doc/release-notes.md index f804e8c11b..91c69b29a2 100644 --- a/doc/release-notes.md +++ b/doc/release-notes.md @@ -1,8 +1,31 @@ -(note: this is a temporary file, to be added-to by anybody, and moved to -release-notes at release time) +Bitcoin Core version 0.10.0 is now available from: -Block file backwards-compatibility warning -=========================================== + https://bitcoin.org/bin/0.10.0/ + +This is a new major version release, bringing both new features and +bug fixes. + +Please report bugs using the issue tracker at github: + + https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues + +Upgrading and downgrading +========================== + +How to Upgrade +-------------- + +If you are running an older version, shut it down. Wait until it has completely +shut down (which might take a few minutes for older versions), then run the +installer (on Windows) or just copy over /Applications/Bitcoin-Qt (on Mac) or +bitcoind/bitcoin-qt (on Linux). + +If you are upgrading from version 0.7.2 or earlier, the first time you run +0.10.0 your blockchain files will be re-indexed, which will take anywhere from +30 minutes to several hours, depending on the speed of your machine. + +Downgrading warning +--------------------- Because release 0.10.0 makes use of headers-first synchronization and parallel block download, the block files and databases are not backwards-compatible @@ -124,3 +147,415 @@ libsecp256k1 is better tested and more thoroughly reviewed than the implementation in OpenSSL. [1] https://eprint.iacr.org/2014/161.pdf + +0.10.0 Release notes +======================= + +Detailed release notes follow. This overview includes changes that affect external +behavior, not code moves, refactors or string updates. + +RPC: +- `f923c07` Support IPv6 lookup in bitcoin-cli even when IPv6 only bound on localhost +- `b641c9c` Fix addnode "onetry": Connect with OpenNetworkConnection +- `171ca77` estimatefee / estimatepriority RPC methods +- `b750cf1` Remove cli functionality from bitcoind +- `f6984e8` Add "chain" to getmininginfo, improve help in getblockchaininfo +- `99ddc6c` Add nLocalServices info to RPC getinfo +- `cf0c47b` Remove getwork() RPC call +- `2a72d45` prioritisetransaction <txid> <priority delta> <priority tx fee> +- `e44fea5` Add an option `-datacarrier` to allow users to disable relaying/mining data carrier transactions +- `2ec5a3d` Prevent easy RPC memory exhaustion attack +- `d4640d7` Added argument to getbalance to include watchonly addresses and fixed errors in balance calculation +- `83f3543` Added argument to listaccounts to include watchonly addresses +- `952877e` Showing 'involvesWatchonly' property for transactions returned by 'listtransactions' and 'listsinceblock'. It is only appended when the transaction involves a watchonly address +- `d7d5d23` Added argument to listtransactions and listsinceblock to include watchonly addresses +- `f87ba3d` added includeWatchonly argument to 'gettransaction' because it affects balance calculation +- `0fa2f88` added includedWatchonly argument to listreceivedbyaddress/...account +- `6c37f7f` `getrawchangeaddress`: fail when keypool exhausted and wallet locked +- `ff6a7af` getblocktemplate: longpolling support +- `c4a321f` Add peerid to getpeerinfo to allow correlation with the logs +- `1b4568c` Add vout to ListTransactions output +- `b33bd7a` Implement "getchaintips" RPC command to monitor blockchain forks +- `733177e` Remove size limit in RPC client, keep it in server +- `6b5b7cb` Categorize rpc help overview +- `6f2c26a` Closely track mempool byte total. Add "getmempoolinfo" RPC +- `aa82795` Add detailed network info to getnetworkinfo RPC +- `01094bd` Don't reveal whether password is <20 or >20 characters in RPC +- `57153d4` rpc: Compute number of confirmations of a block from block height +- `ff36cbe` getnetworkinfo: export local node's client sub-version string +- `d14d7de` SanitizeString: allow '(' and ')' +- `31d6390` Fixed setaccount accepting foreign address +- `b5ec5fe` update getnetworkinfo help with subversion +- `ad6e601` RPC additions after headers-first +- `33dfbf5` rpc: Fix leveldb iterator leak, and flush before `gettxoutsetinfo` +- `2aa6329` Enable customising node policy for datacarrier data size with a -datacarriersize option +- `f877aaa` submitblock: Use a temporary CValidationState to determine accurately the outcome of ProcessBlock +- `e69a587` submitblock: Support for returning specific rejection reasons +- `af82884` Add "warmup mode" for RPC server +- `e2655e0` Add unauthenticated HTTP REST interface to public blockchain data +- `683dc40` Disable SSLv3 (in favor of TLS) for the RPC client and server +- `44b4c0d` signrawtransaction: validate private key +- `9765a50` Implement BIP 23 Block Proposal +- `f9de17e` Add warning comment to getinfo + +Command-line options: +- `ee21912` Use netmasks instead of wildcards for IP address matching +- `deb3572` Add `-rpcbind` option to allow binding RPC port on a specific interface +- `96b733e` Add `-version` option to get just the version +- `1569353` Add `-stopafterblockimport` option +- `77cbd46` Let -zapwallettxes recover transaction meta data +- `1c750db` remove -tor compatibility code (only allow -onion) +- `4aaa017` rework help messages for fee-related options +- `4278b1d` Clarify error message when invalid -rpcallowip +- `6b407e4` -datadir is now allowed in config files +- `bdd5b58` Add option `-sysperms` to disable 077 umask (create new files with system default umask) +- `cbe39a3` Add "bitcoin-tx" command line utility and supporting modules +- `dbca89b` Trigger -alertnotify if network is upgrading without you +- `ad96e7c` Make -reindex cope with out-of-order blocks +- `16d5194` Skip reindexed blocks individually +- `ec01243` --tracerpc option for regression tests +- `f654f00` Change -genproclimit default to 1 +- `3c77714` Make -proxy set all network types, avoiding a connect leak +- `57be955` Remove -printblock, -printblocktree, and -printblockindex +- `ad3d208` remove -maxorphanblocks config parameter since it is no longer functional + +Block and transaction handling: +- `7a0e84d` ProcessGetData(): abort if a block file is missing from disk +- `8c93bf4` LoadBlockIndexDB(): Require block db reindex if any `blk*.dat` files are missing +- `77339e5` Get rid of the static chainMostWork (optimization) +- `4e0eed8` Allow ActivateBestChain to release its lock on cs_main +- `18e7216` Push cs_mains down in ProcessBlock +- `fa126ef` Avoid undefined behavior using CFlatData in CScript serialization +- `7f3b4e9` Relax IsStandard rules for pay-to-script-hash transactions +- `c9a0918` Add a skiplist to the CBlockIndex structure +- `bc42503` Use unordered_map for CCoinsViewCache with salted hash (optimization) +- `d4d3fbd` Do not flush the cache after every block outside of IBD (optimization) +- `ad08d0b` Bugfix: make CCoinsViewMemPool support pruned entries in underlying cache +- `5734d4d` Only remove actualy failed blocks from setBlockIndexValid +- `d70bc52` Rework block processing benchmark code +- `714a3e6` Only keep setBlockIndexValid entries that are possible improvements +- `ea100c7` Reduce maximum coinscache size during verification (reduce memory usage) +- `4fad8e6` Reject transactions with excessive numbers of sigops +- `b0875eb` Allow BatchWrite to destroy its input, reducing copying (optimization) +- `92bb6f2` Bypass reloading blocks from disk (optimization) +- `2e28031` Perform CVerifyDB on pcoinsdbview instead of pcoinsTip (reduce memory usage) +- `ab15b2e` Avoid copying undo data (optimization) +- `341735e` Headers-first synchronization +- `afc32c5` Fix rebuild-chainstate feature and improve its performance +- `e11b2ce` Fix large reorgs +- `ed6d1a2` Keep information about all block files in memory +- `a48f2d6` Abstract context-dependent block checking from acceptance +- `7e615f5` Fixed mempool sync after sending a transaction +- `51ce901` Improve chainstate/blockindex disk writing policy +- `a206950` Introduce separate flushing modes +- `9ec75c5` Add a locking mechanism to IsInitialBlockDownload to ensure it never goes from false to true +- `868d041` Remove coinbase-dependant transactions during reorg +- `723d12c` Remove txn which are invalidated by coinbase maturity during reorg +- `0cb8763` Check against MANDATORY flags prior to accepting to mempool +- `8446262` Reject headers that build on an invalid parent + +P2P protocol and network code: +- `f80cffa` Do not trigger a DoS ban if SCRIPT_VERIFY_NULLDUMMY fails +- `c30329a` Add testnet DNS seed of Alex Kotenko +- `45a4baf` Add testnet DNS seed of Andreas Schildbach +- `f1920e8` Ping automatically every 2 minutes (unconditionally) +- `806fd19` Allocate receive buffers in on the fly +- `6ecf3ed` Display unknown commands received +- `aa81564` Track peers' available blocks +- `caf6150` Use async name resolving to improve net thread responsiveness +- `9f4da19` Use pong receive time rather than processing time +- `0127a9b` remove SOCKS4 support from core and GUI, use SOCKS5 +- `40f5cb8` Send rejects and apply DoS scoring for errors in direct block validation +- `dc942e6` Introduce whitelisted peers +- `c994d2e` prevent SOCKET leak in BindListenPort() +- `a60120e` Add built-in seeds for .onion +- `60dc8e4` Allow -onlynet=onion to be used +- `3a56de7` addrman: Do not propagate obviously poor addresses onto the network +- `6050ab6` netbase: Make SOCKS5 negotiation interruptible +- `604ee2a` Remove tx from AlreadyAskedFor list once we receive it, not when we process it +- `efad808` Avoid reject message feedback loops +- `71697f9` Separate protocol versioning from clientversion +- `20a5f61` Don't relay alerts to peers before version negotiation +- `b4ee0bd` Introduce preferred download peers +- `845c86d` Do not use third party services for IP detection +- `12a49ca` Limit the number of new addressses to accumulate +- `35e408f` Regard connection failures as attempt for addrman + +Validation: +- `6fd7ef2` Also switch the (unused) verification code to low-s instead of even-s +- `584a358` Do merkle root and txid duplicates check simultaneously +- `217a5c9` When transaction outputs exceed inputs, show the offending amounts so as to aid debugging +- `f74fc9b` Print input index when signature validation fails, to aid debugging +- `6fd59ee` script.h: set_vch() should shift a >32 bit value +- `d752ba8` Add SCRIPT_VERIFY_SIGPUSHONLY (BIP62 rule 2) (test only) +- `698c6ab` Add SCRIPT_VERIFY_MINIMALDATA (BIP62 rules 3 and 4) (test only) +- `ab9edbd` script: create sane error return codes for script validation and remove logging +- `219a147` script: check ScriptError values in script tests +- `0391423` Discourage NOPs reserved for soft-fork upgrades +- `98b135f` Make STRICTENC invalid pubkeys fail the script rather than the opcode +- `307f7d4` Report script evaluation failures in log and reject messages + +Build system: +- `f25e3ad` Fix build in OS X 10.9 +- `65e8ba4` build: Switch to non-recursive make +- `460b32d` build: fix broken boost chrono check on some platforms +- `9ce0774` build: Fix windows configure when using --with-qt-libdir +- `ea96475` build: Add mention of --disable-wallet to bdb48 error messages +- `1dec09b` depends: add shared dependency builder +- `c101c76` build: Add --with-utils (bitcoin-cli and bitcoin-tx, default=yes). Help string consistency tweaks. Target sanity check fix +- `e432a5f` build: add option for reducing exports (v2) +- `6134b43` Fixing condition 'sabotaging' MSVC build +- `af0bd5e` osx: fix signing to make Gatekeeper happy (again) +- `a7d1f03` build: fix dynamic boost check when --with-boost= is used +- `d5fd094` build: fix qt test build when libprotobuf is in a non-standard path +- `2cf5f16` Add libbitcoinconsensus library +- `914868a` build: add a deterministic dmg signer + +Wallet: +- `b33d1f5` Use fee/priority estimates in wallet CreateTransaction +- `4b7b1bb` Sanity checks for estimates +- `c898846` Add support for watch-only addresses +- `d5087d1` Use script matching rather than destination matching for watch-only +- `d88af56` Fee fixes +- `a35b55b` Dont run full check every time we decrypt wallet +- `3a7c348` Fix make_change to not create half-satoshis +- `f606bb9` fix a possible memory leak in CWalletDB::Recover +- `870da77` fix possible memory leaks in CWallet::EncryptWallet +- `ccca27a` Watch-only fixes +- `9b1627d` [Wallet] Reduce minTxFee for transaction creation to 1000 satoshis +- `a53fd41` Deterministic signing +- `15ad0b5` Apply AreSane() checks to the fees from the network +- `11855c1` Enforce minRelayTxFee on wallet created tx and add a maxtxfee option + +GUI: +- `c21c74b` osx: Fix missing dock menu with qt5 +- `b90711c` Fix Transaction details shows wrong To: +- `516053c` Make links in 'About Bitcoin Core' clickable +- `bdc83e8` Ensure payment request network matches client network +- `65f78a1` Add GUI view of peer information +- `06a91d9` VerifyDB progress reporting +- `fe6bff2` Add BerkeleyDB version info to RPCConsole +- `b917555` PeerTableModel: Fix potential deadlock. #4296 +- `dff0e3b` Improve rpc console history behavior +- `95a9383` Remove CENT-fee-rule from coin control completely +- `56b07d2` Allow setting listen via GUI +- `d95ba75` Log messages with type>QtDebugMsg as non-debug +- `8969828` New status bar Unit Display Control and related changes +- `674c070` seed OpenSSL PNRG with Windows event data +- `509f926` Payment request parsing on startup now only changes network if a valid network name is specified +- `acd432b` Prevent balloon-spam after rescan +- `7007402` Implement SI-style (thin space) thoudands separator +- `91cce17` Use fixed-point arithmetic in amount spinbox +- `bdba2dd` Remove an obscure option no-one cares about +- `bd0aa10` Replace the temporary file hack currently used to change Bitcoin-Qt's dock icon (OS X) with a buffer-based solution +- `94e1b9e` Re-work overviewpage UI +- `8bfdc9a` Better looking trayicon +- `b197bf3` disable tray interactions when client model set to 0 +- `1c5f0af` Add column Watch-only to transactions list +- `21f139b` Fix tablet crash. closes #4854 +- `e84843c` Broken addresses on command line no longer trigger testnet +- `a49f11d` Change splash screen to normal window +- `1f9be98` Disable App Nap on OSX 10.9+ +- `27c3e91` Add proxy to options overridden if necessary +- `4bd1185` Allow "emergency" shutdown during startup +- `d52f072` Don't show wallet options in the preferences menu when running with -disablewallet +- `6093aa1` Qt: QProgressBar CPU-Issue workaround +- `0ed9675` [Wallet] Add global boolean whether to send free transactions (default=true) +- `ed3e5e4` [Wallet] Add global boolean whether to pay at least the custom fee (default=true) +- `e7876b2` [Wallet] Prevent user from paying a non-sense fee +- `c1c9d5b` Add Smartfee to GUI +- `e0a25c5` Make askpassphrase dialog behave more sanely + +Tests: +- `b41e594` Fix script test handling of empty scripts +- `d3a33fc` Test CHECKMULTISIG with m == 0 and n == 0 +- `29c1749` Let tx (in)valid tests use any SCRIPT_VERIFY flag +- `6380180` Add rejection of non-null CHECKMULTISIG dummy values +- `21bf3d2` Add tests for BoostAsioToCNetAddr +- `b5ad5e7` Add Python test for -rpcbind and -rpcallowip +- `9ec0306` Add CODESEPARATOR/FindAndDelete() tests +- `75ebced` Added many rpc wallet tests +- `0193fb8` Allow multiple regression tests to run at once +- `92a6220` Hook up sanity checks +- `3820e01` Extend and move all crypto tests to crypto_tests.cpp +- `3f9a019` added list/get received by address/ account tests +- `a90689f` Remove timing-based signature cache unit test +- `236982c` Add skiplist unit tests +- `f4b00be` Add CChain::GetLocator() unit test +- `b45a6e8` Add test for getblocktemplate longpolling +- `cdf305e` Set -discover=0 in regtest framework +- `ed02282` additional test for OP_SIZE in script_valid.json +- `0072d98` script tests: BOOLAND, BOOLOR decode to integer +- `833ff16` script tests: values that overflow to 0 are true +- `4cac5db` script tests: value with trailing 0x00 is true +- `89101c6` script test: test case for 5-byte bools +- `d2d9dc0` script tests: add tests for CHECKMULTISIG limits +- `d789386` Add "it works" test for bitcoin-tx +- `df4d61e` Add bitcoin-tx tests +- `aa41ac2` Test IsPushOnly() with invalid push +- `6022b5d` Make `script_{valid,invalid}.json` validation flags configurable +- `8138cbe` Add automatic script test generation, and actual checksig tests +- `ed27e53` Add coins_tests with a large randomized CCoinViewCache test +- `9df9cf5` Make SCRIPT_VERIFY_STRICTENC compatible with BIP62 +- `dcb9846` Extend getchaintips RPC test +- `554147a` Ensure MINIMALDATA invalid tests can only fail one way +- `dfeec18` Test every numeric-accepting opcode for correct handling of the numeric minimal encoding rule +- `2b62e17` Clearly separate PUSHDATA and numeric argument MINIMALDATA tests +- `16d78bd` Add valid invert of invalid every numeric opcode tests +- `f635269` tests: enable alertnotify test for Windows +- `7a41614` tests: allow rpc-tests to get filenames for bitcoind and bitcoin-cli from the environment +- `5122ea7` tests: fix forknotify.py on windows +- `fa7f8cd` tests: remove old pull-tester scripts +- `7667850` tests: replace the old (unused since Travis) tests with new rpc test scripts +- `f4e0aef` Do signature-s negation inside the tests +- `1837987` Optimize -regtest setgenerate block generation +- `2db4c8a` Fix node ranges in the test framework +- `a8b2ce5` regression test only setmocktime RPC call +- `daf03e7` RPC tests: create initial chain with specific timestamps +- `8656dbb` Port/fix txnmall.sh regression test +- `ca81587` Test the exact order of CHECKMULTISIG sig/pubkey evaluation +- `7357893` Prioritize and display -testsafemode status in UI +- `f321d6b` Add key generation/verification to ECC sanity check +- `132ea9b` miner_tests: Disable checkpoints so they don't fail the subsidy-change test +- `bc6cb41` QA RPC tests: Add tests block block proposals +- `f67a9ce` Use deterministically generated script tests +- `11d7a7d` [RPC] add rpc-test for http keep-alive (persistent connections) +- `34318d7` RPC-test based on invalidateblock for mempool coinbase spends +- `76ec867` Use actually valid transactions for script tests +- `c8589bf` Add actual signature tests + +Miscellaneous: +- `122549f` Fix incorrect checkpoint data for testnet3 +- `5bd02cf` Log used config file to debug.log on startup +- `68ba85f` Updated Debian example bitcoin.conf with config from wiki + removed some cruft and updated comments +- `e5ee8f0` Remove -beta suffix +- `38405ac` Add comment regarding experimental-use service bits +- `be873f6` Issue warning if collecting RandSeed data failed +- `8ae973c` Allocate more space if necessary in RandSeedAddPerfMon +- `675bcd5` Correct comment for 15-of-15 p2sh script size +- `fda3fed` libsecp256k1 integration +- `2e36866` Show nodeid instead of addresses in log (for anonymity) unless otherwise requested +- `cd01a5e` Enable paranoid corruption checks in LevelDB >= 1.16 +- `9365937` Add comment about never updating nTimeOffset past 199 samples +- `403c1bf` contrib: remove getwork-based pyminer (as getwork API call has been removed) +- `0c3e101` contrib: Added systemd .service file in order to help distributions integrate bitcoind +- `0a0878d` doc: Add new DNSseed policy +- `2887bff` Update coding style and add .clang-format +- `5cbda4f` Changed LevelDB cursors to use scoped pointers to ensure destruction when going out of scope +- `b4a72a7` contrib/linearize: split output files based on new-timestamp-year or max-file-size +- `e982b57` Use explicit fflush() instead of setvbuf() +- `234bfbf` contrib: Add init scripts and docs for Upstart and OpenRC +- `01c2807` Add warning about the merkle-tree algorithm duplicate txid flaw +- `d6712db` Also create pid file in non-daemon mode +- `772ab0e` contrib: use batched JSON-RPC in linarize-hashes (optimization) +- `7ab4358` Update bash-completion for v0.10 +- `6e6a36c` contrib: show pull # in prompt for github-merge script + +Credits +-------- + +Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release: + +- 21E14 +- Adam Weiss +- Aitor Pazos +- Alexander Jeng +- Alex Morcos +- Alon Muroch +- Andreas Schildbach +- Andrew Poelstra +- Andy Alness +- Ashley Holman +- Benedict Chan +- Ben Holden-Crowther +- Bryan Bishop +- BtcDrak +- Christian von Roques +- Clinton Christian +- Cory Fields +- Cozz Lovan +- daniel +- Daniel Kraft +- David Hill +- Derek701 +- dexX7 +- dllud +- Dominyk Tiller +- Doug +- elichai +- elkingtowa +- ENikS +- Eric Shaw +- Federico Bond +- Francis GASCHET +- Gavin Andresen +- Giuseppe Mazzotta +- Glenn Willen +- Gregory Maxwell +- gubatron +- HarryWu +- himynameismartin +- Huang Le +- Ian Carroll +- imharrywu +- Jameson Lopp +- Janusz Lenar +- JaSK +- Jeff Garzik +- JL2035 +- Johnathan Corgan +- Jonas Schnelli +- jtimon +- Julian Haight +- Kamil Domanski +- kazcw +- kevin +- kiwigb +- Kosta Zertsekel +- LongShao007 +- Luke Dashjr +- Mark Friedenbach +- Mathy Vanvoorden +- Matt Corallo +- Matthew Bogosian +- Micha +- Michael Ford +- Mike Hearn +- mrbandrews +- mruddy +- ntrgn +- Otto Allmendinger +- paveljanik +- Pavel Vasin +- Peter Todd +- phantomcircuit +- Philip Kaufmann +- Pieter Wuille +- pryds +- randy-waterhouse +- R E Broadley +- Rose Toomey +- Ross Nicoll +- Roy Badami +- Ruben Dario Ponticelli +- Rune K. Svendsen +- Ryan X. Charles +- Saivann +- sandakersmann +- SergioDemianLerner +- shshshsh +- sinetek +- Stuart Cardall +- Suhas Daftuar +- Tawanda Kembo +- Teran McKinney +- tm314159 +- Tom Harding +- Trevin Hofmann +- Whit J +- Wladimir J. van der Laan +- Yoichi Hirai +- Zak Wilcox + +As well as everyone that helped translating on [Transifex](https://www.transifex.com/projects/p/bitcoin/). + |